The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-09
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Claims of the Augusta Cotton
Mills for Lower Freight Rates to be
Further Investigated-Eight Persons
Have a Narrow Escape from Being
Killed by Lightning at Augusta.
GEORGIA
Black rust on cotton is reported in many
farms in Stewart county.
Robert Blakely entered store on Capitol
avenue, at Atlanta, Saturday and informed
the proprietor that he hadsklled an infant.
lie then disappeared He said the child
was his sisters and lived two miles from
the city. No murder has been reported,
and the man was probably demented.
The new bridge, just built last year, on
Turner's creek near Florence, has been car
ried away by the high water. It seems to
be an impossibility to get a bridge to stand
long on that side, as the back Water from
the river always floats it off when there is
freshet sufficient to cause a rise IN the
river twenty or thirty feet.
William Virgins, of Wigginsville, Schley
county, has $50 pair of white rabbits, and
his wife can call them up by the hundred.
In few months he will have them by the
thousand, as they are quite prolific. He will
60 into the white fur business as soon as he
has good lot on hand, and make fortune
selling furs for cloak-linings, etc. He gets
81 80 a pair for them now.
Last Chance" as it is familiarly called,
was the scene of row on Saturday. Mar
tina Ward, a disreputable white woman,
took to the warpath, and cursed and
abused, and snapped pistol at Mrs. James
Adams Warrants and counter warrants
were sworn out by both parties and Justice
Wallace gave the case a hearing Monday.
Mrs. Adams was discharged and Martha
Ward was bound over to the next term of
the Superior Court in bond of $50.
A very dusky damsel walked leisurely into
the post office at Dahlonega the other day
and called for Porter Springs postal cards.
The clerk informed her that he kept cards
of all the other Offices but he was just out
of the Porter Springs variety. She walked
out and came back in a short while to know
If he had gotten any yet. He informed her
that he had, and gave her few of the reg
ulation postal cards. She was much dis
pleased, and said that she didn't believe those
would do, as her husband used to have some
with Porter Springs painted on them.
Some uneasiness has been felt about the
Savannah, Florida and Western railway
bridge at Albany since the river has been on
its present tear. An old bridge, or some
thing of the kind, came floating down the
river and lodged against the middle pier of
the treste two or three days ago and is
there yet. The strain on this pier has had
the effect of throwing the track little out
of line but this has been remedied and
Willis Moore, the Supervisor of that division
of the road, who spent Saturday at Albany,
says that there is not the least danger of the
bridge giving way.
The meeting of the rate committee of the
Southern Railway and Steamship Associa-
ton at Asheville on Aug 3, 4 and still
leaves the matter of cotton goods in Stdtu
ha ne al sa1 of thn An
gusta cotton mills, by petition, complained
that under the present classification they
could not compete with Northern manu-
facturers in Western fields. The petition
was fully considered, and at the close of the
session the matter. not having sufficient
light on it, was left in the hands of a special
committee, when the claims of the cotton
men will be investigated and, if based on
substantial claims, further concessions will
be made.
Comptroller General Wright Saturday re-
ceived the annual digests from the following
counties: Lincoln county returns $662 $50,
an increase of 5000: Clayton county re-
turns $1,31S,7l3, an increase of S22, 552
Eftingham county returns $685., 532, an in
crease of S119,635. The total increase Sat
urday was Sal, 207, which added 10 the
S3,Sl9,59S previously received, makes a
grand increase up to date of 80, 96S, sos.
Only one county that has unusually large
valuations has made returns so far, that be-
ing Chatham. When the returns from Full
ton, Richmond, Bib, Muscogee Floyd,
Clarke and others arrive large increase
will be noted
A man by the name Of OVERLY was
arrested at Rome, Saturday, and lodged in
The county Jail on charge of bigamy.
About one year ago, OVERLY, who lives in
Floyd county, near the Barlow line, was
converted to the Mormon faith by one of
the elders who travel through the country
Shortly afterward he courted and won a
young woman of the neighborhood, and
was married TO her by the Mormon elder.
II afterward leaked out that he had wife
and child in Tennessee, and soon as proof
of this could be had, his arrest followed
One of the stranyest parts OF the whole
affair is that the discovery that he had two
wives was made by the Mormon elder and
it was by his instr'umentality that the
arrest was made.
Avis Langston, an li-year-old negro girl,
daughter of Dilsy Langston Ccolorcd5 of
Dahlonega, died last Friday of typus fever
and wounds inflicted from a bursting cart
ridge. It seems that where Dilsy lives there
is a lot of negro children of all ages and
sizes. About three weeks ago several of the
children went out to the woodpile and picked
up basket of chips to throw on the fire.
After the children had put the chips on
the fire they went outsid to play.
Avis, being sick, remained by the
fire place. Shortly after an explosion was
heard and on going inside Avis was found
bleeding about the face. She said that
something had exploded in the fireplace. 1t
is thought cartridge had been accidentally
thrown into the chip pile by some of the
negroes, and that the children had picked il
up and threw it on the fire with the chips
and it exploded, pieces of the shell striking
her in the face. DIR. Jones probed the
wounds, but could not find anything
Tuesday night eight persons were sitting
in the parlor of ID. A. Mayo's residence al
Americas. While they were conversing q
sudden stroke of lightning struck the house,
demolishing a window frame of the room
they were in, driving the broken glass
frame, curtain and facing through
tho room, extinguishing the lights
esd knocking tho company to the
floor. Some of the chairs the per.
sons were sitting in were broken. The
organ was broken. but, strange TO say, with
the exception of one or two slight scratches
no one was hurt. 1t seems that the light
ming struck rod, shriveled and broke it
divided one part going down the rod and
knocking hole through tho brick founda
ton, while the other paid a visit to the
family and visiting friends Joseph A. Cobb
who was going into the gate of w. H. Spcer's
residence at the time, was picked up by the
electricity and carried about sixty feet and